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Twenty years of G2 stuntshttp://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/oct/16/twenty-years-of-g2-stunts
'I've got a great idea for a stunt,' goes the cry from the G2 editor's desk. And so its journalists find themselves invading a Spanish island or talking to John Updike on a bus<p><strong>... camping </strong><br />Lucy Mangan<br /><em>9 July 2010</em></p><p>It's insanity, is what it is. For thousands of years mankind has sought to improve his condition; to protect himself from the elements, to develop a way of life that amounts to more than a constant search for food, warmth and a decent place to shit. And now that we have, at least here in the affluent western world, finally managed to attain such exalted heights, what do we do? We go camping. We abandon comfortable, fully plumbed, brick dwellings and go and live in a field in a nowhere-near-waterproof-enough shell and fend for ourselves once more.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/oct/16/twenty-years-of-g2-stunts">Continue reading...</a>The GuardianNewspapers & magazinesNational newspapersNewspapersMediaCampingTravelHay festivalFestivalsBooksSpainEuropeWorld newsTue, 16 Oct 2012 19:00:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/oct/16/twenty-years-of-g2-stuntsMartin Godwin for the GuardianG2 goes camping at Haywards Heath in 2010. Photograph: Martin Godwin for the GuardianMartin Godwin for the GuardianG2 goes camping at Haywards Heath in 2010. Photograph: Martin Godwin for the GuardianLucy Mangan, Emma Brockes and Stephen Moss2012-10-16T19:00:00Z